We love the beautiful old fiddle tunes and the hypnotic "in the moment" experience of playing this American  "Old Time music".  We wish everybody could join us!  So, with that end in mind, we have taught our ongoing group stringband class in the Seattle area for over twenty years.

Fiddles, mandolins, guitars, and banjos come together once a week over an eight week "quarter" : Fall, Winter and Spring.  Every week, we learn a new tune and also enjoy our other tunes from that session played "en masse."

We've taught hundreds of tunes and always manage to have a great time.  Over the years, graduates of the class have gone on to bigger things: friendships, bands, CD's, we've even had a couple of marriages that got their start over a tune on a Tuesday night!

Our friend and star student Maya Whitmont , has put together a stellar website featuring all  of the tunes we've taught over the last eight years or so- Check it out!

STRINGBAND CLASSES in SEATTLE  

The traditional quarterly schedule is knocked a little wacky this year because we are off to do a tour of England in February.  So we'll start in March, take a break, then continue thru April into May.  Thanks for bearing with us!

March 4th - Stringband Class  #1  -  Winter/Spring Quarter begins!  Fremont Church, 7:15 'till 8:45
March 11th - Stringband Class #2
March 18th - Stringband Class  #3
      March 25th thru 28th - Menucha Ukulele Band Camp - Outside of Portland
      April 4th thru 8th - California Bluegrass and Old-Time Camp
April 15th - Stringband Class #4
April 22nd - Stringband Class #5
April 29th - Stringband Class #6
May 6th - Stringband Class #7
May 13th - Stringband Class #8

Monday nights, 7:15 'till 8:45pm at the historic Fremont Community Church, on 36th,
one block east of Fremont Ave.  Enter through the front door and go up the stairs.

Eight week session- $140 or $20 per class

Don't forget your milking machines!  (Bring a recording device!)

Fiddlers and Mandolinists- Contact Greg or call 206 265-2466
Guitarists and Uke players- Contact Jere or call 206 789-0579
Banjoists- Call Candy at 206 723-0188

See you there!

A lot of folks have been asking for my current  list of tunes in the Calico tuning! Here they are- so far:
-Greg

CALICO TUNES- AEAC#
Cotton eyed Joe (many versions)
Three Forks of Cheat (Burl Hammons)
Pretty Polly Anne
Polly Ann (Fiddlin' Arthur Smith)
Chased the Devil*
Frosty Morning* (Melvin Wine)
Texas Farewell (Jim Pate)
Jaybird in the Ashbrook
Lost Indian (Eck Robertson)
Lost Indian (Mose Coffman)
Lost Indian (Ed Haley)
Grigsby's Hornpipe (Eck Robertson))
Happy Hollow (Marcus Martin)
Calico (Marcus Martin)
Sandy River (Marcus Martin)
When I Get My New House Done (Marcus Martin)
Bill Brown (John Salyer)
Fruit fly Blues (Pete Sutherland)
Black Mtn Rag
Choctaw Bill* (Blaine Smith) (originally a C tune)
Tennessee Mtn Fox Chase* (C tune)
Bibb Co. Hoe-down* (C tune)
Drunken Hiccoughs (Tommy Jarrell and others)
Walkin' Back to Texas (Greg Canote)
Old Blue Bonnet (Uncle George Nicholson)
Cows in the Pea Patch (Burl Hammons)
Snowbird in the Ashbank (Earl Collins)
Scolding Wife (Marion Reece)
Prisoner Boy (Jim Pate)
Robinson County* (C tune)
Walk Along John to Kansas* (K.C. Kartchner)
Enword in the Treetop (John Hannah)
Old Man Gone (Greg Canote)
Jenny Nettles (Willie Collins) (from the Thede book)
Cripple Creek (J.S. Price) (from the Thede book)
Come Back Alive (Greg Canote)
Swing 9 Yards of Calico* (JP Fraley)
Hickory Smith (Greg Canote)
Dixie Darling*
Dearest Friend* (Lone Prairie)
Clifftop Cooper (Greg Canote)
Piney Woods (Hammons)
Betty Ann (John Ashby, Bob Wills)
White River (Ozark tune)
Jericho (Ozark)
Bear Creek Sally Goodin (Ozark)
Scott's Return* (W.E. Claunch)
Gwine Down the Valley*
Obama's March to the Whitehouse (Greg Canote)
One-eyed Gopher (Violet Hensley)

* -works in calico